We have already learned how to answer the question чей? (чья?, чьё?, чьи?) -
whose? with possessive pronouns. Review the following questions and answers.
Click each dialogue to listen, then read it aloud.

1. - Чей это карандаш?

- Это его карандаш.

1. - Whose pencil is this?

- This is his pencil.

2. - Чья это машина?

- Это его машина.

2. - Whose car is this?

- This is his car.

3. - Чей это словарь?

- Это её словарь.

3. - Whose dictionary is this?

- This is her dictionary.

To say "This is my brother's car", "This is my sister's
dictionary" the Genitive Case of nouns and modifiers needs to be
learned.

2.

Uses of the Genitive Case. Introduction

The Genitive case is used to indicate
possession, authorship, inherent connection (e.g. , the whole in relation to a
part). It also corresponds to prepositional phrases beginning with "of".
Study the following examples of Genitive case uses. Click each word combination
to listen, then say it:

Since hard stem masculine nouns (the nouns that end in a consonant other
than -й) have zero ending, you simplyadd the
Genitive case ending: брат
-> брата.

Masculine nouns with -а (-я) at the end (папа, дядя)
take the feminine endings-ы (-и) in
the Genitive case. Compare:
машина моего папы(my father's car), машина
моего дяди (my uncle's car). Pay attention
that such nouns have masculine modifiers (моего). Genitive singular
forms of modifiers will be presented in the next lesson.